Tagliabue Defends Decision

Nfl Chief Convinced Game Should Go On

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National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who presided over a league beset by social, racial and sexual problems in 1990, strongly and at times bitterly defended his decision to play Super Bowl XXV this Sunday while war rages in the Middle East.

"Newpspapers choose to write about us, but they don't write about all the ballets going on at this time," Tagliabue said in his second State of the NFL Address since replacing Pete Rozelle in 1989.